10.04?
Which Linux distribution? Debian? Ubuntu?

I had experience using linux in a commercial environment and decided to try it on my own machine. The installation was far from trivial and I finally gave up on it and went to ubuntu. The difference in ease of installation was amazing and I have been with ubuntu ever since.

My first distro was Ubuntu 5.10, trying to get it installed on an iMac G3

Have played with most version of Ubuntu since then, along with a few version of debian (inc raspbian), as well as CentOS, & have been a user of things such as GPartEd/CloneZilla

MCC interim. It actually used a minix bootloader. 0.96c kernel. We have come a ways since then.

Another awkward question. I think I first used Slackware in the early-mid 90s. I bought RedHat at a computer store - same era. I tried Knoppix at one point and installed a browser in the live instance - and it ate my (Windows) MBR. I switched exclusively to Linux in about 2007. I distro hopped and sometime around 2010 is when I switched to Lubuntu and I still use it as my most-frequent OS.

So, in a way, it's Lubuntu. Prior to that, I distro hopped or merely played with it here and there. At the same time, I was in a Sun shop with Windows on *most* workstations until retirement.

Mandrake 7.0 back in 1999/2000 in the big box version. I remember when Linux distros came in boxes with printed documentation! I also remember when distros came pre-packaged with different desktop environments like Gnome 1, KDE, Windowmaker, etc and you could CHOOSE which one you wanted to use. I also remember dependency h*ll, and the agony of attempting to set up a 28.8 modem to work under Linux. I left linux for about 16 years after being banned from two forums for asking newbie questions, opining that Linux needed to take a page from windows book and make software have everything it needed to run instead of a scavenger hunt for dependencies, and getting mad at the constant RTFM. If I understood the manual, I would not have had to ask the questions! Mandrake was actually pretty darn good for the most part. But the "cool" guys back in the day were the Slackware users, they tended to be more polite, with the Red Hat and Debian users having constant holy wars along with the whole "apt" vs "rpm" war. Then there was the VI/VIM vs EMACS holy war. I gave up and went back to Windows for over 16 years since it just worked (for the most part), and I could never afford a Mac. For years all my systems were hand me downs from a buddy who was in the computer business, so I got his "last years model" since I could not afford to buy anything resembling a decent computer on my salary at the time. Then kids came along, and it was not till later that I could afford to build a modest spec computer. Now I have several I have collected over the years.

!993 Slackware 1.0, loaded on to a Toshiba T3200SXC (not so much a portable more a luggable) using numerous floppy disks.

Slackware in 2004

Debian circa 2000-2001

Starts like a normal Linux rant, ends like a dating profile - what the heck did I just read?

My first Linux distro was a custom compiled image available in St. Louis hacker underground in mid-September 91 that a couple of friends and myself ran on a Sharp sub notebook with an early low power 386. Nice toys I tell you.

Hi,
My first Linux was Epidemic, based on Ubuntu and installed by my son Daniel.
I don't remember the year, perhaps 15 years ago.

Regards.

use redhat Linux. Install with one CD. Failed to detect display monitor size. A lot manual need to read and solved out driver configuration.

SuSE 6.2 in 1999

Mandrake circa 1998

still have a running version on nearly original hardware, (amd 2400xp).
Which also runs the latest (2020) 32 bit version of my daily driver for testing purposes.